Sometimes I start looking through my photo files for something ...
..and then have to stop at an image I'd completely forgotten about...
...such are these early pics from the beginnings of the business we now call
The Potters House Penketh.
You can see that it wasn't all Alan's ceramics then he was still teaching...
...as head of art at Penketh High School.
We backed quite a few of the Traidcraft organisations.
And I also did a bit of dealing in vintage and collectables..anything to get the business going.
Every Tuesday I hired "The Institute" on the main Warrington Road.
This is a pic of sisters who came with their mum and shared the building..it was a place of fun and friendship.
Later it became a coffee house for the local church..St. Paul's Penketh and was renamed "The Manna House" ..and when sold on to a young local entrepreneur...Andrew Mulholland...it kept it's name and is used for grand parties and celebrations.
It meant a lot of packing and unpacking and lugging heavy boxes of ceramics and craft goods.
...and our old car at that time often needed a push to get the engine going!
There were many lovely people who became involved by baking and making for stalls.
So much laughter and naughty innocence...it was great to remember it all as I looked through the file of pics.
